<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Yesterday, I witnessed 2 fellow colleagues of mine cheating on the AP Statistics test, I called up ETS's Office of Testing Integrity and asked about the consequences of reporting cheating and they said that it would become really complicated and would involve our school, the principal, the AP coordinator and others. I then made the report that there was cheating going on during the exam.</p>
<p>My question to you fellow CC'ers is, will this get blown up? I honestly don't want my principal, AP coordinator, and possibly fellow students involved blaming me for potentially invalidating their tests, and at a minimum, delaying everyone's scores. Also, the AP coordinator also happens to be the Guidance Counselor who writes college recommendations and I'm worried that he'll write a bad one since he's really impatient. </p>
<p>What's the best course of action from now? Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated because I'm very nervous about other students/teachers or others blaming me for potentially invalidating the test scores. Also, hypothetically speaking, if the test were invalidated, would we have to pay the full exam fee? Thanks.</p>
<p>What were the actions of said “cheating?”</p>
<p>Dude, what is your problem?</p>
<p>Ooo that’s a tough one. I would’ve just let it go. It MIGHT get blown up. I’ve never really heard of it happening so I wouldn’t know. Don’t worry about the guidance counselor recommendation thing. IF you really suspect he will be unfair, then notify your colleges when the time comes.</p>
<p>Do you have any friends?</p>
<p>Eh, nobody likes being a nark, but what you did was right. Best of luck, let us know what happens.</p>
<p>Basically, what we were supposed to do was to sit at two ends of a long table so there would be no way of seeing each other’s papers. What happened was 2 girls decided to sit facing each other so they were within a foot apart and their papers were basically touching. These girls are also notoriously known for cheating so everyone in the class knew they were going to work together, when I finished early on the multiple choice, I glanced there way and sure enough, they were staring at each others papers.</p>
<p>The proctor (who is really impatient) didn’t really care and didn’t move them. He’s sort of unresponsible. But they definitely cheated.</p>
<p>@098765… I think it’s really unfair that people cheated on the Statistics exam because first of all, it’s an unfair advantage, secondly, it’s just wrong.</p>
<p>This might be a ■■■■■ considering it’s their first post…</p>
<p>I wish I could say that reporting cheating is the right thing to do, but I don’t think its worth having the **** totally hit the fan over. A kid in a school near mine was accused of cheating and everyone’s scores were withheld until an investigation (involving the freaking FBI) ended in like October.</p>
<p>I created a new account to become completely anonymous. Just in case people checked the emails associated with these accounts (If that’s possible). My normal one contains my name in it.</p>
<p>@Randwulf, the FBI comes into play in this?!?!</p>
<p>If they’ve cheated before, they’ll do it again. These are supposed to be Advanced Placement courses. If they need to cheat in order to do well on the exam, then they shouldn’t deserve the score they will get. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, you’re in the tough position where everybody in your room’s scores will be postponed.</p>
<p>It sounds ridiculous, but yes, the FBI became involved.</p>
<p>Although I could be mixed up. Once they had a kid cheat, and another time they had a kid steal a test. I forget which instance the FBI got involved in.</p>
<p>Dude, I don’t want random people like teachers/coordinators/administrators asking me questions. Especially not the FBI! I thought this was supposed to be anonymous and confidential reporting!</p>
<p>Edit: Oh, I highly doubt the FBI would be involved in cheating, stealing a test on the other hand is like copyright infringement + other laws broken.</p>
<p>I mean yeah it’s unfair, but it doesn’t affect you at all. It’s not like two people could change the curve. Also, if they are notorious cheaters they are probably dumb and working together likely didn’t even help them. Why wouldn’t you just keep it to yourself instead of calling the College Board? ahhaha</p>
<p>Because they do this often and brag about the high scores they get. They’re notorious cheaters, but they’re not that stupid. I also never said changing the curve was a reason for reporting it, I just think it’s really unfair that they can get away with cheating on everything from the classroom to AP Tests. Cheating in class copying homework and tests is one thing, but the AP Tests are much more important and I think that’s highly unfair.</p>
<p>hahah, happened all the time at my school. People would sit for other people’s tests. They just fill in all their friends information, take the test, turn it in. When it gets graded their friend gets full credit for the score. I knew people who took the apush exam all four years. They took the class freshman year, got the score for themselves. Then took the test 3 more years for their friends. Meanwhile their friends were taking exams for their friends. Insane what went down back then. It only happened because the person giving the test didn’t really care.</p>
<p>LOl, headlines “FBI on a case: Student cheats on Exam, the country is in chaos!”</p>